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Landscape Painting by Agostinho Batista de Freitas, 1992

This is an original oil or acrylic painting on panel by the celebrated Brazilian Naïve artist Agostinho Batista de Freitas, dated 1992. The artwork depicts a serene rural scene featuring a man on horseback riding down a dirt path, accompanied by two spotted dogs. In the background, white-walled cottages with red-tiled roofs are nestled among rolling green hills and dense shrubbery. The style is quintessentially Brazilian Naïve art, characterized by its flattened perspective, meticulous attention to rhythmic patterns—particularly in the tall grass—and a bright, saturated palette dominated by greens, ochre, and soft blues. The piece is signed 'Agostinho Batista de Freitas 1992' in the lower left corner in the artist's characteristic cursive script. The artwork is housed in a multi-tiered wooden frame with a gilded inner lip, which shows minor age-related wear including slight scuffing. The painting itself appears well-preserved with stable pigments, though a slight patina of dust may be present on the surface. The craftsmanship reflects the self-taught precision for which the artist is famous, often focusing on life in São Paulo or the surrounding countryside. This late-career work demonstrates his mastery of texture and compositional balance.